First showing in Belgium
Eléna Issaeva / Vladimir Pankov
Musical Theatre / Russia

 Over the past few years in Russia far from the main Theatres, a new kind of marginal theatre has developed, regarding what we call “ Documentary Theatre”. Around the “teatr.doc” which is one of the most fascinating place of the moscovite theatrical landscape, some stage directors, actors and play writers have established as a goal to reveal some dark aspects of the Russian society and to scramble certainties refusing messages and conclusions. They portray the dilapidated state of today’s Russia and the shared values of the people, the decade conditions of the prisons and of the democracy…In Doc.tor it is the collapse of the medical and health system that is in question. A doctor tells of how he arrived in a small provincial town at the end of his internship and how he was reduced to healing people with rock-bottom means, sometimes by simply looking them in the eyes. Directed by Vladimir Pankov the rebel of Russia’s young stage directors, with both a lust for life and exceptional talent (actor, musician, director, composer, singer…), this documentary play is also musical theatre. The actors become tremendous singers and dancers, the narration is alternated with parts sung, the rhythm whether it be rap, traditional Russian music or jazz gives to this play written by the well-known poet and play-writer Eléna Issaeva, a poetic, dynamic and violent hint. The diagnosis is by no means less terrifying.

Playwright: Eléna Issaeva- Stage direction: Vladimir Pankov- With: Serguei Agafonov, Olga Berger, Serguei Chevtchenko, Alice Astrina, Alina Olshanskaia, Serguei Rodukov, Andrei Zavoduk- Stage management:Natalia Zholobova, Vladimir Kudryavtsev, Vladimir Nelinov- Tour administration: Nika Garkalina- French version: Tania Moguilevskaia, Gilles Morel- Co-production: SounDrama/Teatr.doc Moscow- Photographer: Alexei Bagdasaryan

Duration 1h05
The show is in Russian with French subtitles